The weather in England has been weird. I got a little burnt sunbathing in February. The snowman in the garden had recently melted. Meanwhile, the news is full of climate change and ecological collapse ... But when I sit down in the evening and flick on the telly, browse the cinema listings, or put on some music, I don’t find the biggest story on earth ... ....

A new report published on Thursday in the New York Times said the doomed Boeing jets which crashed in Indonesia and Ethiopia both lacked two safety features in the cockpits because the company charged extra to install them ...Faulty data from sensors on the Lion Air plane could have caused that system, called MCAS, to malfunction ... Fehrm told the NYT....

Dubai found itself entangled in the sex abuse case against American R&B singer R. Kelly on Thursday after the performer asked a U.S. judge to allow him to come to the Arabian Peninsula sheikhdom to perform shows and “meet with the royal family.” ... and the UAE, a federation of seven sheikhdoms ... Kelly was charged on Feb ... RELATED R ... The R ... ....

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan security forces detained a key aide to opposition leader Juan Guaido in a raid on his home early Thursday, an opposition lawmaker said. Lawyer RobertoMarrero was taken by intelligence agents in the overnight operation in Caracas, said lawmaker Sergio Vergara, whose nearby residence was also searched ...The U.S ... ....

SAN FRANCISCO&nbsp;(AP) - Facebook said Thursday that it stored millions of its users' passwords in plain text for years. The acknowledgement from the social media giant came after a security researcher posted about the issue online ... Facebook said there is no evidence its employees abused access to this data ... ___ ... ....

House Oversight and Reform Committee chairman Rep.Elijah Cummings sent a letter to the White House on Thursday which raised concerns about newly revealed information from last December over Jared Kushner using encrypted messaging service WhatsApp and his personal email account to conduct official White House business, according to Politico....

The United States on Wednesday (March 20) warned Pakistan on another terror attack on India which would prove to be "extremely problematic" for the country. Apart from warning the country, the US has asked Pakistan to take sustained, verifiable and irreversible action against the perpetrators of terrorism ... 'NEED TO SEE MORE' ... 'CHOICE IS PAKISTAN'S' ... ....

Five mosques in Birmingham in the West Midlands in the United Kingdom had their windows smashes with a sledgehammer on Thursday morning, according to local police. Deutsche Welle said authorities believe the attacks are likely linked and counter-terrorism police have launched their own investigation into the incidents ... ... ... -WN.com, Maureen Foody....

A ferry sinking in the Tigris river near the Iraqi city of Mosul has resulted in the death of at least 40 people, BBCNews reported Thursday ... said.The ferry, heading to a tourist island, was being attended to by rescue teams trying to reach the ferry passengers, BBC News reported....

The shooter livestreamed 17 minutes of the horrific attack -- which left 50 people dead -- on Facebook ... The video was later viewed 4,000 times before Facebook took it down ... Facebook users can flag as in appropriate content that includes nudity, violence, harassment, false news, spam, terrorism, hate speech, gross content and suicide or self-injury ... ....

More than 1,000 people protested outside the Hungarian Academy of Science on Thursday to protest Prime MinisterViktor Orban's attempts to overhaul the institution which scientists and academics argue is a threat to their independence, according to Reuters ... "Yet, our nearly 200-year-old national institution is left fighting for its survival.”....

Venezuelan intelligence officials kidnapped opposition leader Juan Guaido's chief of staff on Thursday, along with searching another opposition official's residence, according to BBCNews. Intelligence officers conducted the early morning raid as the country struggles with an ongoing political crisis ... "He must be released immediately." ... ....